Mirror worlds, light and shadow spheres

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Dear visitors,

discover the nearly two hundred groundbreaking artistic positions that we have put together in the exhibition »Negative Space – Trajectories of Sculpture«.

The spatial sculptures we show here were created in accordance with modern spatial theories in the 20th and 21st century: Spatial lines and contours, spatial constructions and -illusions, open spaces, spaces around, cavities and interspaces, holes, voids and air spaces, fictional spaces, mirror-, light- and shadow spaces.

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Refik Anadol, »Infinity Room«, 2015, walk-in video- & soundinstallation

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At the start of your parcours through the landscape of sculpture, you will probably be asking yourself: What does »negative space« actually mean? The term can be understood best if you think of the verb to »clear«: Things are »cleared« away to make space or to create new space. »Clearing« is also tantamount to »emptying«. Space is therefore to be understood as »the void«.

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Adolf Hölzel, 1901

»I don't paint the objects, I paint the spaces between them.«

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The classical sculpture is body-centered

It stands in the space, but does not make the space itself a theme. The spatial sculptures you see in this exhibition are non-figurative:

They are perforated, transparent, suspended, hanging, light and free – in some cases even liquid!

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You will be amazed at how manifold the »Negative Space« is displayed. Join us on a journey through mirror worlds, through light and shadow spheres! Until 11 August, 2019 you can experience the »Negative Space« at the ZKM.

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Fujiko Nakaya, »CLOUD WALK @ZKM. Fog Sculpture #10731«, 2019

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I would like to draw your attentionto the fog installation on the forecourt: every hour during the opening hours of the exhibition, the ZKM Cube is wrapped in wafts of fog. You walk on and through clouds: CLOUD WALK.

Your Peter Weibel

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